Back an Hour

We finally hit the road and turned Road Hazard due north until we hit Interstate 10. This interstate will become our friend because it will eventually take us across the country. It felt good to be driving west once we hit 10. It finally feels like we are heading in a new direction. A direction that Reta and I have never been except for a few cities.
The distance from Crystal River to Destin is 368 miles and we stopped twice so that we could switch off the duties of controlling RH. It took us a little over 6 hours. We decided to stop and top of the tank since we hit another station that is RV friendly. You don't find to many of them along the way so when you do, you better stop.

Doesn't this look comfortable? It's like sitting in a lazy boy chair watching the world go by through a huge window in front of you. We both enjoy driving RH but I have to admit that we each also took a nap on the co-pilots chair. The drive up was interesting to see how the landscape changes. It went from very flat to hilly by the time we hit the pan handle. I always enjoy driving over these two lane bridges. You're sitting up so high and all you can see is water. Can those walls really stop a rig this big?
We found our campground with no problem but to getting into it was a problem. This campground only has about 28 spots. It's mostly privately owned but the owners rent out their spots when they're not around. To make the turn into this place was tight. We had to disconnect the pickup so that I could back up about 5 feet to make the turn. Here we are, in our spot finally, all unpacked and ready to walk down to the beach and check it out. Oh, wait! Before we head out the door we had to set all our clocks back an hour. We are now in the Central Time Zone. You know what that means? We're finally moving west!

Short walk to the beach got us there close to sunset. Our first impressions of Destin Beach's are very good. The sand is white and very fine. When you take your flip flops off the sand is cool between your toes. I think it will work just fine...

The next decision we have to make is where we want to go from here. Tennessee is not too far from here and we could visit Nashville and Memphis. Or, we could continue west and try and hit Tennessee some other time. We'll have to check out the weather channel and Internet to see which way to go. The tough decisions we have to make...